Essays on Cultural Diversity

Our culture molds us, molds our behavior, and our sense of self. Our way of life is defined by the shared language, ideas, values, conventions, behaviors, and material items that are passed down from generation to generation. We are modified by others and we modified...

With an immensely assorted population that exists in the United States today, our nation is a mixture of all the diverse societies around the globe. Everyone is unique in their own way. Culture can refer to such a significant number of various things like the...

I look around and see unfamiliar people. These people are my classmates for the next two years. They are all very different and very similar. In terms of differences they came from different countries, have different accent, they are younger or older, with or without...

For my final project, I have decided to write a short story comparing the Danish family life with the Chinese family life. My idea was inspired by a book called East Meets West, it is a book written by a graphic artist Yang Liu. At...

Throughout the years, the world has become more globalized in a way that people allaround are communicating with one another. This action, also known as interracial dialogue,has been prospering and flourishing for many years. The promotion of interracial dialogue in-cludes not only the advocation of...

The Hofstede dimensions which differ the most between the United States and India are power distance, individualism, long-term orientation, and indulgence. Power distance is the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is...

Waiting To Exhale When we are confronted with a radically different reality, it could be an oppressing experience. Steve Biko uses the phrase “culture contact” when referring to the exposure of one culture to another. Many people would think that culture shock only happens on...

A World Away in Cyprus My name is Human and I am choosing to write about the five years spent adapting to, and understanding the culture I encountered when living in the village of Ypsonas, Cyprus. After growing up in Long Island for most of...

This study is aimed at looking at high-minority and high-poverty schools and whether an educational leader can improve that school with a culture change and what tactics can be used to improve the school through competent leadership. During my time as an educator, I have...

Culture described how things are and acts as a lens through which the world is viewed. Culture is a system of shared beliefs, values , customs and behaviours. School culture is based on people in it. Each school has a different phenomenon or mentality of...

Before answering the question of why diversity is important, one must understand what it is. According to Belfield, “Multiculturalism is a system of beliefs and behavior that recognizes and respects the presence of all diverse groups in an organization or society, acknowledges and values their...

The international student that I interviewed was Carmen Hernandez. Carmen is form Veracruz, Mexico which is by the Gulf of Mexico. The reason why Carmen choose to study at Oklahoma State University was because, the place she studies at gave her an opportunity to come...

In the first essay, “We’re not…” by Andrea Roman discussed the cultural conflicts when she lives in America with her Bolivian family, especially her strict Bolivian mother. However, in the second essay, “The Undercurrent” by Kelly Young emphasizes about her mother’s overly protective desire to...

Every person is unique, some of us have been mistreated or have been oppressed because we are a member of a particular group. If we decide to ignore these present day or historical differences, we may fail to understand the needs of those individuals. People...

The Lewis Model of Cross-Cultural Communication was created by Richard D. Lewis. The center of the model characterizes social standards into Linear-Active, Multi-Active and Re-Active, or some blend. In Richard Lewis’ model my way of life has a place in the direct actives. The direct...

Introduction Culture is the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the member of one category of people from those off another-Geert Hofstede Different countries have different cultures. Knowing the various culture helps a business to gain competitive advantage in future and become market leader....

One Slovenian and two Italians make up our group, with some Americans, French and Spanish classmates surrounding us. We all have different traditions and sense of our culture, yet we tend to share some others. With our Slovenian friend attending a special school every Sunday...

Increasing rates of innovation and globalization require higher quantities of complex interactions among people from diverse cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds. People no longer live and work in a restricted marketplace (Bhardwaj, Sharma & Deepshikha, 2017). This increased global visibility has completely changed the dynamics of...

I breathe in the air that seems to smell rich. I ride in car without ever having the thought to brace myself for pot holes. I look around without ever seeing anyone suffer or begging for food. I see kids dancing around and laughing with...

In ethics, ethical relativism is one of the most controversial topics. In fact, many known ethicists reject and completely neglect the theory. They believe that even though moral practices in societies may differ, the fundamental moral principles underlying these practices simply do not. These fundamental...

The Construction of a Modern National Consciousness, as the title suggests is based on the issue of Palestinian identity, which has long been misunderstood and misrepresented. One of the first striking points that Khalidi makes is that Palestinian identity has been misunderstood because it is...

I am twenty-two years old, born in Brazil on the city of Sao Paulo the biggest metropole in the county. Since the day that I was born, many of the activities have happened around my own life and in the lives of people around me...

The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2015) found that people with diverse histories, cultures, beliefs and languages have settled in Britain experience an ongoing challenge which is faced within mental health services is that research shows that minority ethnic groups are least likely to...

Very often children argue and demand about what they want to be when they grow up; while parents require them to be what they want them to be. The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan shows the life of a Chinese girl who is...

As social decent variety increments crosswise over races, ethnicities, dialects, nationalities, strict contrasts, and globalization, social assorted variety in the working environment has expanded as sexual direction is spoken to in a general public.’ While the media and contemporary writing receive the rewards of social...

In a literature view, diversity has been used to describe the configuration of groups in a workplace environment. Diversity is measured to be an individual of groups which raises to analytical differences amongst members. Similarly describes diversity as differences in viewpoints consequential in potential interactive...

In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Tan claims the concept that we tend to speak totally different languages to speak with one another which our intelligence is judged by the approach we tend to speak. As a fictional author, Tan is astonished by...

Culture is a way of living which is unique to each and every specific groups in society. The way of communication, language, foods, beliefs, costumes, traditions and customs are diverse from each group. A society has different cultures which brings its a life with various...

Culture defines us, it is a way of life. It determines how one thinks, how one feels, and how one behaves. It can change one’s perspectives on sensitive topics or what one thinks about another. Culture changes the way one views others and the world...

Why is it important to study other cultures? It is important to study other cultures because if you don’t learn about other cultures you could get the totally wrong idea about anything, or you could just be self-centered about your culture and start something bad....